For many years people have always said this is the year for Linux to start taking over some of the Desktop market share. Well after many years of that proving to be wrong year after year. I am not sure how much that matters any more.
While Linux has a pathetic fraction of the desktop market share, it holds its own when it comes to servers. But something no one was really looking out for was Linux taking over and dominating the smart phone market, and likely also portable embedded systems, just as tablets, pads, etc. Its amazing how quickly Linux/Android took over and become the #1 smartphone operating sytem. Thus Linux might not rule on the desktop, but it does on the smartphone and other devices. Take that M$, bite my Apple, Apple, and for the rest, so sad to bad :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone#Operating_systems Granted its a slight lead over Symbian(Nokia). But how long have they been in the market place compared to Android. Same applies for Apply, who stole Cisco's operating system name, totally lame! Look at how much Androids market share increased last year. Now this might sound bad, but I do not see my mother or relatives ever running Linux on the desktop. But not to long ago, after damaging her phone, she now has an Android powered device. Which now makes my mother and others Linux users, they just don't know it. ;) Not a bad thing and way to go Linux and Android, thank you Google! -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
